Late at night the surroundings are oddly quiet, you can only hear the sound of the wind whispering to your ears. 

There's a mysterious lady on her 30's with a Slim body, beautiful purple eyes and black hair. She is wearing a dark cloak covered with blood. While lying on the riverside and gazing to the sky.

*panting* 'The bleeding wont stop...'

Her wounds seem to have been caused by a piercing strike on her arms and her body.

Lady: 'The stars in the sky are so beautiful... If only I have much time left in this world, I would like to watch this scenery until the sun rises.'

' Why did I end up like this?' *Coughs* 'it's getting worse...'

The mysterious lady reaches out to her pocket and holds a strange looking box that glows so bright like the stars above.

'This is the only way to escape on this mess, I'm sure those aristocrats are coming after me. I don't have any other options left, let's see how this thing works'.

The mysterious Lady opens the box and take a look inside of it. After she saw what's inside the box she grins mischievously.

'It's empty... that guy manage to get what's inside. Not a problem I still got the box '.

The lady uses some kind of magic to create a weird looking key and She put the key inside the box.

'I guess my little 'show' ends here now, I'm sorry... This is the only way I can think of right now, I want to see you again... even when that time comes neither you or me can recognize each other anymore'.

The Lady's eyes started to get teared up and her hands shook as she holds the box.

As soon as the lady closed the box, she lose her conciousness and the box glows eerie and even brighter. After the box has been fully charged it releases a condensed energy that goes throughout the town and destroy everything on its range.

*Boooom!!!*

After the explosion of magic, the box shattered into pieces. As for the key inside, it got blown somewhere after the explosion. Also the mysterious lady nowhere to be seen.

The explosion caused quite a commotion and there's two men on a distance staring at the pillar of light that the box's explosion caused.

Man in white cloak: "tsk we're late, the box of xxxxxx has been destroyed let's hope for the best for the people on the vicinity of explosion"

'you witch... Look what you've done' the frustrated man said on his mind

Servant: "that's the first time I heard you mentioned the name of that box my liege."

"That thing was never meant to be mess with in the first place"

"I see, so what does that box really do?"

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"It doe- WATCH OUT !!" 

a tree falls above them and the Servant almost caught by it.

"Are you alright?" 

"Yes Mr.Headmaster, thanks"

"Let's leave this place"

The  Servant revealed that the man on white cloak is a "Headmaster". The Headmaster looks like on his 40s with a white hair and long beard. His eyes are golden yellow and looks fierce like a Lion hunting its prey. As for the Servant He looks like a man on his late 20's he have a black eyes and black hair. He wears a white uniform that looks like a servant from a royal family.

The  two men leaves the place without saying a word and the Headmaster clenched his fist.

Next morning the small town that experienced the explosion last night are not looking so good. Half of the town is damaged and many townsfolk lost their lives and properties. The people of the town wondering what caused the explosion.

Female Villager: " Did you hear the blast last night??".

Curious Villager: " I don't know it's actually real because I dreamt of a explosion in my sleep but now I think it's not a dream at all ".

Female Villager: " I'm just glad my family are safe whatever happened last night".

Curious Villager: "Yes, you're totally correct on that part".

As time passed by the Town is losing its shape and transforming into a ruins. The ruined town used to be a calm and vivid place that lives in harmony, but now its just a  bunch of rubble and dust everywhere around the former town.

The townsfolk of the town are forced to leave their homes and migrate to somewhere else. 

The incident that happened on the town is all over the news. Most people don't even care because they're busy on their own lives than to pay attention on a tragedy that happened on a small town, but there are some that gives pity on the residents of the area.

The aftermath of the explosion left the ruins with its concentrated magical essence  lingering on its atmosphere.

Meanwhile At the manor over the hill of the Ruined town. Inside of the manor there's a big room filled with luxurious and fancy things like it's a throne room.

Servant: "My liege I'm here to report. The scout report near the former Town in the west is still the same as before.

Headmaster: "is that so? Hmmm.. let's monitor it from afar for now but if anything strange happens commence a patrol and report immediately"

Servant: "Understood Headmaster, we will deepen the search so we can gather more info"

Headmaster: "Go now, I can't ignore this because that is very important treasured artifact of my family and now it's gone– destroyed by that 'witch' ".

Servant: "Yes sir, I'll take my leave. If you'll Excuse me".

The servant left the room. The Headmaster turned his chair on the big window behind him *sigh*.

"I wonder where that witch go, I need to know what kind of item she put on that box before it caused some trouble on many people's lives... "

"Just how heavy she wished for that the box caused to explode like that, Luckily she didn't get her hands on this...".

The Headmaster pulled out a pure white gem on his pocket, with the looks on his face you can see that he's relieve for a moment even though the box is now gone...

The Headmaster tapped his fingers on the armrest and his eyes are focused to the horizon. The weight of the incident is still lingering on the corner.

What is that box? What so important about it?...

(Few Days Later)

The wind blows gently, Leaves are rustling and the birds are chirping on the top of the trees enjoying the calm breeze of the forest. 

There's a Merchant that is strolling deep inside the forest. The Merchant carries a large bag that full of various Items that he get from his travels. While the Merchant is walking on his way out to the forest he saw The KEY.

Merchant: "Hmm? What a strange looking key... Who will put a key on the forest? Maybe someone else dropped it. Anyways I'll take it with me maybe I can sell this on some cities".

The Travelling Merchant picked up the key on the ground and the Merchant noticed something about the key.

Merchant: "I think I struck gold on this one hehehe"

The Merchant examining the properties of the key with his sparkling eyes.

"I can sell this treasure for a high price that's for sure! ehee hee~~"

The gems on the black key are faintly glowing with bluish and a touch of purple light.

The Merchant proceeds to stroll on the forest to reach his destination and the key alongside him.

                 [Strings of Destiny]